Republican Club
OF SAN FRANCISCO
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday,
May
15
6:00 PM
15
6:00 PM
Colonel Chris Starling
US Marine Corps (Ret.)
The Italian Athletic Club
Col. Starling was a national security affairs fellow for 2007–2008 at the Hoover Institution. He will discuss America's top security challenges for our next president including existing and emerging threats.
Chris graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and was commissioned as an infantry officer in 1988. He served in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Marine Divisions. He participated in Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and Iraqi Freedom. Most recently he was the Commanding Officer of Battalion Landing Team 2/2, completing his fifth deployment to the Persian Gulf in July 2007.
Other previous assignments include service in the US Pacific Command’s Counter-Drug Inter-Agency Task Force in Alameda, CA and as an Assistant Professor of Military Science at the US Military Academy, West Point. He has a Masters of Public Administration degree from John Jay College, City University of New York.
Thursday,June20
2024
20
2024
Annual Ladies Luncheon
The Spinnaker, Sausalito
Ladies, get ready for a wonderful time to be together. We'll have great raffle prizes benefiting Congressional candidates in a very important election year.
Thursday, August
29
2024
2024
Professor John Yoo
The Spinnaker, Sausalito
John Choon Yoo is a Korean-born American legal scholar who serves as the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Tuesday,
November
5
2024
2024
Election Night Party
Location to be Announced
Make sure to vote and then join us to celebrate on Election Night!
PAST EVENTS
Thursday,March21
2024
21
2024
Joel Pollak
The Italian Athletic Club
Senior Editor-at-Large and In-House Counsel
Breitbart News
Joel Barry Pollak is a South African-American conservative political commentator, writer, radio host, and attorney. He currently serves as the senior editor-at-large for Breitbart News. He attended Harvard College ('99), the University of Cape Town ('06), and Harvard Law School ('09). In 2010, he was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress from Illinois's 9th congressional district. From 2009 to 2010 he was a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, and since 2017 he has been a radio host at SiriusXM.
Friday,
February
16
2024
16
2024
Congressman Kevin Kiley
The Italian Athletic Club
House of Representatives
California's Third District
Elected to Congress in November 2022, Kevin Kiley previously served in the California State Assembly, representing District 6 from 2016 to 2022. In 2021, Kiley ran as a replacement candidate in the recall of Gavin Newsom. Kiley earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his master's in secondary education from Loyola Marymount. He is a staunch conservative and fearless in the face of California's Democrat policies. We will welcome his comments on the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives.
Sunday,
December
10
2023
10
2023
Twenty-Seventh Annual Christmas Gala
St. Francis Yacht Club
Please join us for a festive celebration of the Christmas season benefiting USMC Toys for Tots and N-Power Skillbridge, a nonprofit that trains those leaving the military for employment and helps find them a job
Gala Chair Michele Larsen
and Co-Chairs Thalia Stratton, Joan Leone, Kathy Turnquist
Thursday,
October
12
2023
12
2023
California Senator Melissa Melendez
Executive Director
America First Policy Institute, California
The Italian Athletic Club
Former State Senator and Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez was a Russian language translator for the US Navy and was part of reconnaissance flight missions during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Today, her organization's "America First" mission is to ensure President Trump's next administration will be ready to implement his policies on Day 1.
Together with former Trump cabinet officers and other administration officials who began the think tank America First Policy Institute, Senator Melendez is bringing back those successful Trump Administration policies that were working to restore America prior to the pandemic. Putting "America First" means that on day one whenever there are leaders ready to implement these policies, they'll have ready made solutions, laws, and ideas to implement on issues ranging from crime, business prosperity, regulation, energy, national security, and more.
Thursday,
August
24
2023
24
2023
Professor John Yoo
at The Spinnaker, Sausalito
Professor of Law at UC Berkeley
John Choon Yoo is a Korean-born American legal scholar and former government official who serves as the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He became known for his legal opinions concerning executive power, warrantless wiretapping, and the Geneva Conventions while serving in the George W. Bush administration, during which he was the author of the controversial Torture Memos during the War on Terror.
His latest book The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Supreme Court will be available for purchase at the dinner August 24th. In this book, he lays out why justices must defend the Constitution, how the Supreme Court became central to American politics, and how the Court can either save the Republic or jeopardize the entire legislative process.
Thursday,
July
13
2023
13
2023
Congressman Louie Gohmert
at The Presidio Golf & Concordia Club
Recent US House of Representatives
Having completed his nine term in the United States House of Representatives earlier this year, Congressman Louie Gohmert was first sworn in January 4, 2005. He proudly represented the First District of Texas which encompasses over 12 counties stretching nearly 120 miles along the state’s eastern border.
Attorney and former judge, Louie is a Republican and an early leader in the Tea Party movement. He boldly stands on America’s founding principles and is known for his big, innovative ideas solidly based on Constitutional fundamentals. He is a Christian husband and father of three daughters.
Thursday,
June
15
2023
15
2023
Catherine Engelbrechtat The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club
President & Founder, True the Vote
Dinner and Screening of “2,000 Mules”
Catherine is a mother, business owner, native Texan and lifelong practitioner of common sense. What became a full-time calling to grassroots activism started in 2008, when she could no longer silently watch as government acted in stark contrast to America's principles of personal liberty and economic freedom.
In 2009, she started True the Vote, a citizen-led effort to restore honor and integrity to our electoral system. True the Vote educates voters, trains and mobilizes citizens to work at the polls, researches the veracity of voter rolls, and advocates for election code reform. True the Vote is now the nations leading voters' rights organization.
Wednesday,
May
24
2023
24
2023
A Ladies' Luncheon
at The Sausalito Yacht Club
Benefitting Tunnel to Towers
Again, this year there will be a raffle drawing for great prizes at the event. A listing of the raffle prizes will be sent to you via email very soon. Raffle tickets can ONLY be purchased at the event with either a check payable to the Republican Club of San Francisco or cash at 5 tickets for $25; 10 tickets for $40; 15 tickets for $50. There will be NO live auction this year. The proceeds from the raffle sales will benefit Tunnel to Towers.
Thursday,
May
4
2023
4
2023
Congressman Kevin Kiley
at The Presidio Golf & Concordia Club
House of Representatives
California's Third District
Elected to Congress in November, Kevin Kiley previously served in the California State Assembly, representing District 6 from 2016 to 2022. In 2021, Kiley ran as a replacement candidate in the recall of Gavin Newsom. Kiley earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his master's in secondary education from Loyola Marymount. He is a staunch conservative and fearless in the face of California's Democrat policies. We will welcome his comments on the new Republican US House of Representatives.
Friday,
March
31
2023
31
2023
Dr. James Jay Carafano
The Heritage Foundation
SAN FRANCISCO ITALIAN ATHLETIC CLUB
James Jay Carafano is a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, an accomplished historian and teacher, as well as a prolific writer and researcher. He currently serves as The Heritage Foundation’s Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, assuming responsibility for Heritage’s entire defense and foreign policy team; the E. W. Richardson Fellow; and the Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies.
Sunday,
December
11
2022
11
2022
Gala Chair Michele LarsenLive Auction Conducted by Tony Hall
Music by Vince Aguiar Trio
Complimentary Parking
Limited Seating
Tuesday,
November
8
2022
8
2022
Election Night Dinner Party
Dinner and Screening of “2000 Mules”
Please celebrate with us at the Italian Athletic Club on Election Night. We will start with a no-host bar reception at 5:30. followed by a family-style dinner and screening of "2000 Mules" at 6:00. We will then turn to Fox News election results coverage on the big screen.
Thursday,
October
20
2022
20
2022
Lanhee Chen
Chen for California Controller 2022
in conversation with Steve Hilton
Jacuzzi Family Vineyard, Sonoma
Lanhee is one of America’s leading policy experts and frequent commentators on national TV. Currently on leave from Stanford University, he is a professor of public policy and conducts research at the Hoover Institution. He helps leaders develop policies to address our society’s most pressing problems.
Thursday,
October
62022
6
2022
Paul Manafort
Paul John Manafort, Jr., is an American lobbyist, political consultant and attorney.
Born in New Britain, Connecticut. Educated at Georgetown University (1971) and Georgetown University Law Center (1974). Manafort is married with two daughters. A long time Republican party campaign consultant, he chaired the TRUMP presidential campaign from June to August, 2016.
Thursday,
September
152022
15
2022
Katie Hopkins
Katie Hopkins is a British conservative media personality and columnist best known for her unflinching reporting in hostile environments. She is also funny.
Katie has lived her life in the cross hairs. She is banned from South Africa by the ANC, was deported from Australia for criticising lockdowns, and has been questioned under police caution for her views and was the target of a jihadi plot to behead her in the UK.
She says she lives utterly without fear, but knows her epitaph: "Katie Hopkins. She died standing up."
